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Here is the list of WordPress hacks that I will be working on. Please comment or post an entry if you have more you would like to add or if you would like to work on a particular hack.
1) Blog This - Done - look at this post on TechGnome
2) Link This - Done - Look at this link in WP Forums
3) b2stats - Done - Look at this post WP forums
4) LJUpdate - Not done yet, will look into it 
5) Threaded Comments - Done - Look at this link
6) Clickable smilies on the user posting page - Done - Look at this post on the WP forums. I would be interested to know if this works on Opera.
7) Send/print this page hacks - “Send this page” has been worked on . Printing is taken care of through the print CSS. So I consider this done. Please correct me or add more stuff to this.
Auto convert friends names to links - Done - Look at this file for the hack.
9) Restructure wordpress so that the index.php installs in the root and the wordpress files run in a subfolder - I think this would be an intrusive hack and would take away from the work of the core developers. I understand that a lot of people want this implemented, but I am going to pass on this one. If anyone else wants to jump in, please do so.
10) Sticky post - Done - look at this link
11) Multiple Blogs - Need more on this
12) Style switcher - done in many ways, with good explanations - Look at this post on WP Forums
uh hi everyone! ummm this is my first time i joined in wordpress…
Matt found a wonderful resource on the internet which generates a number of pre-defined templates on the fly. Supported Blogging Tools and CMSs include:
Diaryland
Diary-X
Blogger/Blog-Spot
MT
B2
WordPress
There are about 12 templates and a bunch of built in features which are encoded automatically! If you came here looking for templates for your blog, this is a place to definitely check out!
This is definitely worth a long post. I read about this on eWeek and really wanted to see what they were about. 1and1.com has a Free Web Hosting package which lasts for a full three years. i have not figured out what their deal is, as of yet, but they seem to pitch a good story. Three free years of hosting, no obligation, no ads, nothing. I signed up with a phony address, phony name and my real cell phone number. They use this number for authentication rather than just using the email address (they send you a “PIN” which you put into a secure page to get your service). I think they might be playing some game with the phone numbers. But if you are willing to put up with this nuisance or are willing to risk giving someone your phone number, give it a try. I have not gotten done with the authentication process yet, but I cannot wait. They also seem to have a long list of disclaimers (which I did not read, I know…that was my fault). Anyways, if all of this is true and they are not a bogus company, you could possibly end up with the following incredible features!
: Webspace - 500 MB.
: Your URL - Domain,Subdomain.
: Upload Method - FTP,Telnet.
: Forced Ads - No.
: Your Ads - Allowed.
: Scripting - CGI,Perl,PHP,SSI,FrontPage Extensions.
: Email - POP3.
: SSL - Yes.
: Database - MySQL.
: Statistics - Yes.
: Custom error pages - Yes.
: Advanced Password Protection
: 5 FTP accounts
: Cron Jobs
: SSH Secure Shell Access
Last date is January 14th and there is no obligation to get anything after your three years is up. This is really too good to be true. I wonder if I am setting myself up for some hurt. Nothing in this world is THIS free! Hmmmm….
TechGnome has
built a “Blog This” bookmarklet that, when clicked, will popup a blog entry form, with the Title, and TrackBack URL prefilled with the web page’s title & URL. The body of the post will come pre-filled with a hyperlink to the page as well.
Here is the link to the hack. Good job TechGnome!!
Just create a bookmark with the following as the link (only for Mozilla):
The encoding in WP is messing things up, here is the link to the text file with the javascript bookmarklet.
Once you have typed in or pasted code into a form somewhere on a <em>Mozilla page<⁄em>, clicking on this link will encode the elements on the form. The way it stands, it should encode < , >, \ and / It can be modified to encode everything in the ascii alphabet. Have fun and let me know how it works out for you!
Attribution: Original idea courtesy of ScriptyGoddess, Javascript “Textarea” hack to get around DOM selection problems courtesy of Steve Minutillo All I did was hack the code!
As per an email question from SouthernGal , I realize that I should have mentioned the way around Mozilla to actually make this a bookmarklet. So here goes…
Under Bookmarks toolbar in Mozilla, click on manage bookmarks and then
File->New->Bookmark
Call it whatever name you want and copy and paste everything from http://dinki.mine.nu/weblog/b2-img/bookmarklet.txt into the “Location” area of the new bookmark. Once done, click OK. Now drag this newly created bookmark from the “Bookmarks folder” into the personal toolbar folder (all inside of Bookmark manager), thus creating the bookmarklet. Move it around on your personal toolbar to situate it correctly. All done!
This bookmarklet does not even need highlighting of your code to encode, it encodes everything inside of forms, simply click on it when you need encoding.
For all of you script monkies out there, here is a javascript bookmarklet which encodes EVERYTHING!
I found a couple of other nice templates for WordPress. Reyman has one which looks very clean and polished and looks somewhat like the old B2 theme, just much more smooth. Check it out here and download it here.
I have modified my personal blog template (again!) and now I have three columns, but the menus show up on the right on 2 different columns, kinda different and funky. Once the CSS code is done completely, with a browser window resize, the 2 menu columns with merge into one. Check it out here.
The latest Blogging Survey Results are out from BlogsearchEngine.com. Take a closer look. Some of the items are not very surprising (such as 52.3% of bloggers surveyed use Google’s Blogger as their blogging platform of choice) but this information can be used very creatively by the media and PR entities to exploit this growing phenomenon.
A WP user asked about the best way to restrict access to the WP directory (on the WordPress forums) and I posted an answer without realizing that I should have explained myself further. Dougal added his own post which, I thought, was really well put and deserved a mention. He explains the intricacies of securing WordPress and in the process, explains file/directory permissions for UN*X/Linux servers as well. Good, quick, relatively complete explanation.
Here is the link to the discussion.
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